A tent with an enhanced load-bearing capacity secures accessories and equipment. The tent includes an upper panel assembly having a front panel, a rear panel and a pair of side panels connecting the front and rear panels together, the front, rear and side panels forming a roof with an upper sloping surface, and a plurality of support legs coupled to the upper panel assembly, each support leg having an upper end coupled to the upper panel assembly and a lower end in contact with the ground surface, each support leg designed to slidably adjust to permit height adjustments of the roof above the ground surface. Each support leg and each panel in the upper panel assembly are designed to permit the attachment of one or more accessories or equipment thereon.

A palletizable shelter that is easy to deliver, quick and easy to set up with no tools required, easily moveable (light), that can provide sleeping shelter for up to four adults, provide a very modest amount of living space during the day, provide a modest level of storage in a secure (lockable) structure, easily cleaned, can be disassembled with no tools, packaged and stored in a very small volume, and readily deliverable to the next site quickly and easily. A community in a container model is provided that includes multiple palletizable shelters in a collapsed configuration, a common cooking and meeting place, laundry facilities, and a shared bathroom facility that would include toilets, sinks and showers.

Disclosed is a thin-film radio frequency absorber material that is mass-produced by a high-speed manufacturing method of printing a highly controlled pattern of conductive ink squares onto a thin roll film, resulting in a lightweight low-cost radio frequency absorber component that is flexible for use in multiple novel configurations. The roll film material and printed squares are each easily adjustable to a specific size and thickness within the manufacturing process to coincide with control and protections related to variable specific radio and radar wave frequencies. Further integration into the three-layered thin-profile radio frequency energy absorber and reflector assembly provides control and protection properties related to radio and radar frequency, infrared, electromagnetic pulse, electromagnetic interference, and thermal insulation values in structural building panels utilized in lightweight structures such as the foldable transportable structure or other types of building and protection assemblies.

A transportable garage is provided, for storing vehicles, aircrafts, equipment, or shelter individuals on a site. The garage comprises a frame assembly configurable between a collapsed configuration and an erected configuration. The frame assembly comprises support members extending along the ground when the garage is use; and a plurality of frame units connected to the support members. Each frame unit comprises a plurality of articulated frame members, which are configurable between a folded configuration and a deployed configuration. The garage may also include a covering assembly for covering the frame assembly when in the erected configuration. When the frame assembly is in the collapsed configuration, transportation of the garage to the site is facilitated.

A system, elements of the system and a method of forming scalable, compatible and resilient building structures. Preferably, one or more of (i) standard intermodal containers or racks (steel cuboidal versions as well as flat racks typically used on cargo ships); (ii) pallet racks (steel frame versions typically used in warehouses), and/or (iii) boat storage racks (steel frame versions typically used in marinas) are utilized to form a main structure/assembly (e.g., outer shell or frame) of a building structure that is easily assembled with width ranges from, for example, 24 feet wide to 40 feet wide, a length of 40 feet or longer and multiple stories or levels (e.g., 2 to 4 stories or levels). Preferably, existing portions of containers and associated racks are used to interconnect these members/elements (e.g., casting corners or fork-lift receiving channels/sections/portions) to form scalable, compatible and resilient building structures.

A mobile house construction (1) is easy to move with strong mobility; (2) has a high folding ratio, providing a good living experience; (3) has a simple structure and is easy to drive; (4) permits for the entire device to be factory manufactured; and (5) provides a standardization of structure, thus reducing costs. The home construction includes a main body structure and a folding mechanism. The main body mechanism is the main load-bearing structure of the mobile house, which is connected to the folding mechanism. The main structure includes a floor, a water tank, an engine, a bathroom, a kitchen, a door, a window, a load-bearing column, a load-bearing beam, and the like, and can further include several pieces of furniture. The folding mechanism can expand the internal space of the mobile house, including the left side folding mechanism, the right-side folding mechanism and the top folding mechanism.

An enclosed habitable house has a main body, a roof system, a wall system and a bottom drive mechanism. The main body mechanism is connected with other elements and provides the framework and structural support. The main body includes the main body frame and the articulation mechanisms. The roof system is symmetrical on both sides of the main body and installed on the upper part of thereof. The roof system includes two foldable sloped roofs and four foldable roof supports. The wall mechanism is symmetrically distributed on both sides of the main body and includes the outer wall system, the side wall system and the rotation mechanism. A bottom driving mechanism is used for the unfolding of the wall system and includes four sets of retractable pushing mechanisms. The front and rear walls can unfold from the sides of the main body during expansion of the structure.

A modular multi-container housing structure connection system for shipping containers having fittings defining orifices includes modular interchangeable interlocks each comprising a lock part shaped and configured to lock within an orifice of a container in a locked state, a modular connector frame comprising interchangeable struts, each of the struts comprising opposing first and second interlock assembly bodies, each of the opposing interlock assembly bodies configured to receive therein at least one of the interlocks, a set of the struts comprising at least one of a pair of right and left vertical struts and of upper and lower horizontal struts, and at least one of the interlocks being disposed and positioned within a respective one of the interlock assembly bodies of the strut set such that, placing a respective interlock in the locked state causes the interlock assembly body containing the respective interlock to be locked within an adjacent container orifice.

Disclosed herein is the fabrication and implementation of prefabricated volumetric construction modules that include transitioning members that adjust between vertical support columns and structural trusses via lateral joints. Modification of vertical support columns to trusses enables open space configurations in volumetric construction. Each volumetric module includes a habitation zone and a truss zone. Folding or transitioning a vertical support column at the lateral joint positions a lower region of the support column from the habitation zone into the truss zone. The vertical support columns are transitioned in a specified order where within a given row of vertical support columns. Beginning from a first interior column on an edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, workers fold half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a first direction toward the edge-positioned transforming volumetric module. Continuing from a second interior column on an opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, a worker folds a remining half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a second direction toward the opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module.

A foldable building structure is provided that includes a fixed space portion including a first floor portion, a first ceiling portion, a first wall portion rigidly secured to the first floor portion and the first ceiling portion. The foldable building structure includes a second wall portion which is movable between a folded position and a deployed position, and a third wall portion which movable between a folded position and a deployed position. The second and third wall portions when in their deployed positions form with the first wall portion a first wall component of the foldable building structure. The second wall portion is capable of being moved between the folded position and the deployed position without moving the third wall portion between the folded position and the deployed position.